From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3E5CD027.40808@strakt.com> From: Boyd Roberts User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] A proposal regarding # in bind References: <70b1be7bf1a870538ecd7c40d8b83810@plan9.bell-labs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:33:11 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7315eb58-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Russ Cox wrote: >Here's a different proposal, also just an idea rather >than a complete proposal, but perhaps worth pursuing. > > Yes I was thinking of a similar (non file-system) interface that provided a descriptor to access/modify your namespace. Your idea certainly seems to be on the right track. I would imagine that if it's a fd it could then be used to pass a namespace to related and un-related processes.